“My Country; A Work in Progress” – The First Brexit Play at the National Theatre
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Oh dear. The first play explicitly about Brexit is being staged by the National Theatre in a...
Read MorePosted by Cleo Jay | 13th Mar 2017 | Egypt, Morocco, Theatre and Politics, Tunisia
In the two years since the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring,’ North African theatre...
Read MorePosted by Renan Ji | 12th Mar 2017 | Brazil, Festivals, Theatre and Decolonization, Theatre and Politics
One can be surprised to see the brief life of MITsp (Mostra Internacional de Teatro de São Paulo)...
Read MorePosted by Dorothea Marcus | 8th Mar 2017 | Germany, Theatre and Politics
What does a German municipal theater need? Wilfried Schulz has been intendant of the Düsseldorf...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 8th Mar 2017 | Review, Theatre and Age, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 7th Mar 2017 | Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The story of the “coughing Major” who cheated to win the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? jackpot is...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 6th Mar 2017 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Is it a good or bad thing for a dyed-in-the-wool dystopian like Wallace Shawn when real life...
Read MorePosted by Alfonso Vázquez | 5th Mar 2017 | Spain, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics
Stefano Massini’s A Stubborn Woman, recreates the figure of Russian journalist Anna Politkóvskaya....
Read MorePosted by Detlev Baur | 22nd Feb 2017 | Germany, Playwriting, Theatre and Politics
With his debut play Terror, the lawyer and best-selling German author Ferdinand von Schirach...
Read MorePosted by Clement Lee | 22nd Feb 2017 | China, Hong Kong, Review, Theatre and Politics
A Concise History of Future, Yan Pat-to’s new Berlin Theatertreffen Stückemarkt award-winning...
Read MorePosted by Lyndall Grant | 20th Feb 2017 | Australia, China, Review, Theatre and Politics, Transcultural Collaborations
China’s one-child policy officially ended in 2016. Little Emperors, currently showing at...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Feb 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Young British writers are often surprisingly unadventurous when it comes to locating their plays...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Peschel | 18th Feb 2017 | Czech Republic, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The film Denial, which opened in the U.K. on Holocaust Memorial Day, tells the story of author...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th Feb 2017 | Germany, Review, Theatre and Politics, Translation, United Kingdom
A day or so after Theresa May’s keynote speech about Brexit the words Europe and European carry an...
Read MorePosted by Robert Reid | 14th Feb 2017 | Adaptation, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Orwell’s novel 1984 is currently a bestseller in the U.S. We can soon expect many...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 13th Feb 2017 | Canada, Theatre and Politics
On November 8, 2016, America elected its 45thPresident, Donald Trump, whose political forays,...
Read MorePosted by Göksu Kunak | 13th Feb 2017 | Interview, Lebanon, Theatre and Politics
In this interview, Rabih Mroué talks about micro-narratives, the ability of theatre to enact a...
Read MorePosted by Kata Karah | 13th Feb 2017 | Review, Romania, Theatre and Politics
In a way, communism has always been playing on the masses. There are endless things hidden within...
Read MorePosted by Kee-Yoon Nahm | 12th Feb 2017 | South Korea, Theatre and Politics
On January 8th, a group of artists and activists erected a large tent in Gwanghwamun Square and...
Read MorePosted by Adam Sherwin | 7th Feb 2017 | Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Emma Rice, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe ousted for introducing modern sound and...
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